I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.
Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.
When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.
The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.
I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.
People forget that public people and celebrities, they too have to go to the bathroom and get divorced.